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How to evaluate social and informal learning

Jay Cross

Network analysis. Social network analysis provides another level of sophistication in analyzing network activity. Social network analysis lets us look at groups. Value network analysis could yield economic information that social network analysis fails to cover.

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Here’s a summary of the Working Smarter Fieldbook : While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training class divorced from work. Finally, here’s a summary of Informal Learning.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Social Graph.shaping up to be the hot summer song of 08

Mark Oehlert

Dion Hinchcliffe, as per usual, has a good solid explanation of the social graph (and a lovely graphic). It is close to social network analysis but is more closely tied to graph theory - hence its language of nodes and vertices. Think of it as the study of people and their connections. From the land of Huh?